Relationships
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Relationships
Understanding Others' Emotions | Lisa Feldman Barrett
youtube.comA fantastic insight by Lisa Feldman Barrett: When someone expresses anxiety, the first thing you should do is ask: do you want empathy or do you want a solution?
Will 100% use this phrase going forward.
“You can predict the long term health of a relationship by whether each cut heals to 99% or 101%.”
― Michael Mayer
From Esther Perel's Blog - Letters From Esther #37: Eroticism is an Art. But It’s Also a Practice.
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“The aim of each thing which we do is to make our lives and the lives of our children richer and more possible.”
— Audre Lorde
But when they say, “I’m thinking of leaving,” I think, Now hang on a sec. You had me right up to that last bit. Fine: you’ve changed; she’s changed; life has changed. And the kids—well, they’ve disrupted, interrupted, confronted, confounded, and otherwise fundamentally altered everything . All very, very hard. And yes, sometimes it feels
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